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packed engines

Postby Mihail Croitor » 21 Jan 2005, 17:04

a little question about packing engines with UPX, ASPack - is packed engine so slowly then not packed or not?
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Re: packed engines

Postby F.Huber » 21 Jan 2005, 18:44

Mihail Croitor wrote:a little question about packing engines with UPX, ASPack - is packed engine so slowly then not packed or not?

Hi Mihail,

packing has absolutely no influence on the speed of an engine!
When a packed engine is called, it?s immediately unpacked into memory at startup time, and of course this unpacked version is running - so you?ll not notice any difference in speed. :D

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